No problem :) Just out of curiosity, sockets on a bluetooth interface are no different than on ethernet or wifi, I imagine ?
Jonathan On 5/23/07, Bluezapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for the reply. This was my first post in this forum as I joined the > forum today and I am happy to get a reply as in the past months I was asking > questions in gtk and gnome forums with a single or no reply at all. > > I will surely look into the archive now. Actually, I am dealing with > Bluetooth sockets in this case, > > best regards, > > Bluezapper. > > Jonathan Winterflood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > There's been some talk about threads in the last couple of weeks on this > list, you should be able to lift them from the archive if you just > subscribed. > > An easy alternative to threads in this case would be to connect the > socket to a GIOChannel, and have the gtk main loop deal with the data > asynchronously: the button will release immediately and the data will get > processed when it gets back. > > A friend and I did this in a program we developped recently, using the > gnet library (a glib based library for portable network communication), but > you might not need that. > > _very_ crudely: > gnet_tcp_socket_connect_async(adress, port, > &(_socketConnectAsyncCallback),this); // on the button clic > > void _socketConnectAsyncCallback(GTcpSocket > *socket,GTcpSocketConnectAsyncS tatus status, gpointer data) is called when > the connection is established (or fails to) > then get the channel: _channel = gnet_tcp_socket_get_io_channel(socket); > register data arrival handler: g_io_add_watch(_channel, G_IO_IN, > &(_imageDataReadyForReading), this); > send your request: gnet_io_channel_write_%something > gboolean _imageDataReadyForReading(GIOChannel *, GIOCondition, gpointer > data) is called when some data arrives > > Voilà > > Hope it helps, > Jonathan > > > On 5/23/07, Bluezapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hello all, > > I have a question about button release event. I have a GTK_PANE window. > > When I press the button I open a socket connection and get back some data > from it. Since the opening of socket and getting the data back takes some > time I want to display some status messages to the user in a text_view which > is added to the lower Pane. > > My problem is until the button releases my whole application freezes > and text_view gets updated after release. > > How do I start two threads in Gtk so that one thread opens the socket and > other thread updates the text_view. > > Thanks for having the patience to read my long complete email, > > regards, > > Bluezapper. > > > --------------------------------- > Don't pick lemons. > See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who > knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
